Shortly after the discovery of human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6), two distinct variants, HHV-6A
and HHV-6B, were identified. In 2012, the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses …

SUMMARY Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8), also known as Kaposi's sarcoma-associated
herpesvirus (KSHV), discovered in 1994, is a human rhadinovirus (gamma-2 herpesvirus) …

Kaposi's sarcoma had been recognized as unique human cancer for a century before it
manifested as an AIDS-defining illness with a suspected infectious etiology. The discovery of …

Infections with human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6), a beta-herpesvirus of which two variant
groups (A and B) are recognized, is very common, approaching 100% in seroprevalence …

Background Transmission of human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8), the aetiological agent of
Kaposi's sarcoma, is known to occur during sex among homosexual men. However, other …

Infection with Kaposi's sarcoma (KS)-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) or human herpesvirus
8 (HHV8) is common in certain parts of Africa, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean, but is …

A lesser‐recognized form of human herpesvirus 6 (HHV‐6) persistence is integration of the
viral genome in a host chromosome and high viral copy numbers in blood or sera are …

We have sequenced the long unique region (LUR) and characterized the terminal repeats of
the genome of a rhesus rhadinovirus (RRV), strain 17577. The LUR as sequenced is …

We studied the seroprevalence and transmission of Kaposi's sarcoma‐associated
herpesvirus (KSHV/HHV8), among 215 Ugandan children, adolescents and young adults …

In the years before human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, the incidence of Kaposi's
sarcoma varied markedly across the African continent, and it was a disease primarily …